netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 0/3] Proposal for VRF-lite

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Date:	Tue, 9 Jun 2015 10:14:53 -0700
From:	Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...atatu.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Jon Toppins <jtoppins@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/3] Proposal for VRF-lite

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Nicolas Dichtel
<nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
> Le 09/06/2015 16:21, David Ahern a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Nicolas:
>>
>> On 6/9/15 2:58 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not really in favor of the name 'vrf'. This term is very
>>> controversial and
>>> having a consensus of what is/contains a 'vrf' is quite impossible.
>>> There was already a lot of discussions about this topic on quagga ml
>>> that show
>>> that everybody has a different opinion about this term ;-)
>>
>>
>> Are you referring to this thread?
>> https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2014-November/011795.html
>
> No, there were recent discussions on quagga about that subject. Here is some
> non-exhaustive pointers:
> https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2015-May/012581.html
> https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2015-May/012630.html
> https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2015-June/012715.html
>
> Note the last pointer also explains why it was called MRF by Cumulus.
>
>

Agreed, I used the term VRF for this series to make sure we had the
right context, but clearly MRF is a term we are happier to use ..

> Regards,
> Nicolas
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